SCRANTON — With snipers watching from the rooftops, hundreds of state troopers from Pennsylvania and as far away as Alaska converged in downtown Scranton on Thursday to mourn the death of a colleague killed in an ambush last week.

The somber funeral Mass for Cpl. Bryon K. Dickson II, who is survived by his wife of 10 years, Tiffany, and two young sons, Adam and Bryon, came as law enforcement continued to search for the man suspected of killing Dickson and critically wounding another trooper last Friday outside of the rural state police barracks at Blooming Grove, Pike County.

Hours after the funeral, police swarmed the Canadensis area in an intensified search for Eric Matthew Frein, the self-styled survivalist who lived in the Monroe County village with his parents and is accused of ambushing the troopers. The full-force search was called off for the night about three hours later.

In Scranton, hundreds of law enforcement officers from around the country were among those paying tribute as Dickson, 38, was laid to rest.

Officials say Frein, 31, has anti-government leanings and disappeared from his home with an AK-47 assault rifle and a .308-caliber rifle with a scope. On Thursday, he was added to the FBI's Most Wanted List.

Law enforcement from as far away as Alaska converged in downtown Scranton on Thursday to mourn the death of slain Trooper Bryon Dickson as the manhunt for his killer continues.

Law enforcement from as far away as Alaska converged in downtown Scranton on Thursday to mourn the death of slain Trooper Bryon Dickson as the manhunt for his killer continues.

Police have moved their staging area to the Pike County Training Center, tucked deep in the Delaware State Forest, about two miles east of the barracks where the shooting occurred. An officer holding a rifle stood in the driveway, and two officers a mile south could be seen peering into the woods.

In neighboring Monroe County, the intensified police search for Frein in the Canadensis area Thursday was called off at 9:45 p.m.

A state trooper told a gathering of reporters along Route 390 that roadblocks had been lifted and state police would scale back the hunt for the night and resume in full force Friday. He said the search Thursday night was just one phase of a regional dragnet.

"We have been out en masse not only here in Monroe County but also in Pike County," he said, adding no homes were evacuated in the Canadensis area.

Police will continue to put all of their resources into finding Frein, the trooper said.

He told the reporters he wasn't in Canadensis when the search started about 6:30 p.m. but arrived later. He had been at Dickson's funeral.

The trooper said he only heard that there was a possible sighting of Frein, but didn't know the details of exactly what prompted the shutdown of roads all around Canadensis, a village in Barrett Township.

Earlier in the night, police and paramedics set up a staging area near Frein's home and put up roadblocks keeping most traffic about a mile away.

Local and national news media gathered next to the Canadensis United Methodist Church, awaiting word on the search.

Frein is the only suspect in the ambush, which happened about 10:50 p.m. last Friday. Trooper Alex Douglass, 31, of Olyphant, Lackawanna County, was also shot. He is recovering in a hospital from a gunshot wound to his pelvis and has been speaking with authorities.

Some schools in the Poconos remain closed with the manhunt underway in northeastern Pennsylvania. East Stroudsburg Area School District said in a message posted on its website that it was closing Friday "due to increased law enforcement activity in portions of our school district." Pocono Mountain and Wallenpaupack school districts also remain closed Friday.

In Hawley, Wayne County, a picturesque small town near the epicenter of the search area, businesses have closed their doors and residents' nerves are frayed by fear that the gunman could be in the woods or empty vacation cabins nearby.

"We're all terrified, especially us girls working alone in the shop. He could be anywhere," said Lyndsey McCole, 22, who works at the 4 Paws Only pet grooming salon in the center of town, where business has dropped because residents are afraid to leave their homes.

"There were helicopters flying over our house in the middle of the night," said resident Jessica Hinchman, 24.

Even the police presence in town was unsettling.

"They're all over the place and ready to go," Hinchman said. "I don't want to be driving with my kids and get caught in a shootout."

The tiny vacation town of Peck's Pond, along winding Route 402 six miles or so from the shooting scene, is dotted with vacation cabins that are empty this time of year. Salisbury Township resident Kelly Peterson's family has been visiting the area for generations. They traveled here this week from the Allentown.

Peterson, 52, said the family's main concern is they don't have cellphone service here, so they worry about what would happen if Frein showed up.

"We have definitely talked about it," Peterson said. "We have a plan. We talk about it kind of half joking, but I think that's just nerves. It's definitely something we've never had to worry about before. We've been coming here our whole lives and it's always been so quiet and peaceful."

Kevin Debatt, 53, owner of Kevin's Hog Heaven, a barbecue restaurant in Peck's Pond, said that the residents here all know each other and have their own security methods: "Everybody here owns guns. There are a lot of hunters."

Debatt said his customers are all talking about the trooper shooting.

"We're watching the news and staying updated," he said. "But I wouldn't say we are afraid."

At East Stroudsburg University, about 35 miles away from the police staging area in Pike County, classes were back to normal Thursday following a brief shutdown Wednesday. Students were following social media closely for updates on the manhunt.

"I generally feel safe because the police are good here. But it's kind of an eerie feeling in the back of your mind, knowing he's still out there," said Shane Olenwine, 23, a junior from Wind Gap.

After receiving reports Wednesday afternoon of a man fitting Frein's description entering a home near campus, where Frein once was a student, state police shut down the neighborhood, affecting some classes. The search turned up no evidence of Frein and on Thursday, the university told students in an email that state police recommended they "go about their everyday business."

"Right now, there's one man with one rifle that's committed a heinous crime, but there are hundreds of other dedicated men out there to bring him to justice," state police Commissioner Frank Noonan told Dickson's family and the scores of state police gathered in Scranton's St. Peter's Cathedral.

Scranton's usually bustling streets, serving a population of almost 80,000, were somber. Church bells tolled over quiet streets and one of Dickson's sons wore a state trooper hat as the service got underway, with onlookers unable to get inside the cathedral listening to the ceremony through speakers outside on a cool, sunny day.

"We gather here in sorrow, disbelief, and anger. But most importantly, we gather here in faith. The singular question many of us are asking is why — why did this heinous act of violence take place?" The Rev. Thomas M. Muldowney told the congregants. "Why are there intrinsically evil people in this world?"

One of Dickson's fellow troopers, Derek Felsman, called him an "impeccable" man and best friend who "placed his wife and children before anything else."

"His uniform was always crisp and spotless," Felsman said. "He'd spend hours upon hours shining leather gear, day after day. A day never went by when Cpl. Bryon Dickson wasn't ready for his final inspection."

Felsman choked up as he promised, "We will take care of Tiffany and the boys."

Speakers said that Dickson was a Marine for four years before attending Penn State University, where he did not have much interest in football but tutored some of the players. He then became a state trooper, often working the late shift, where he tried to catch drunk drivers.

"Bryon was a man of humility," Felsman said. "He never acknowledged his profound contributions to society. … He shied away from recognition.

"When you talk, as I have, to his friends and colleagues who have known him throughout his career, he is someone everyone admired," Noonan said. "His motivation was to help people and do what's right. ... He loved the Pennsylvania State Police, and his job meant a great deal to him."

Noonan said Dickson's would be the 95th name on the state police memorial for officers killed in the line of duty.

To the sounds of bagpipes and church bells — and with a Marine color guard standing at attention — hundreds of troopers standing in perfect formation saluted as six trooper pallbearers carried Dickson's flag-draped coffin down the steps of the church and into a hearse.

Palochko and Mason, of The Morning Call, reported from Scranton, Pike and Monroe counties; Pearce, of The Los Angeles Times, reported from L.A. Warner, of The Morning Call, reported from Canadensis.

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